Safe to say, my near 55-year infatuation with motorsports began here - Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway - or close by. I didn't know it at the time that there was a career for me in racing but I still thank my dad for taking me to the 1955 edition of the sports car races in Del Monte Forest. It rained most of Sunday and I caught a healthy dose of poison oak from campfire smoke but I was hooked.   A year later, when Ernie McAfee's tragedy effectively ended the through-the-woods event, the... Read More